Men's Rugby | 9/7/2018 10:37:00 PM

MONTREAL – Jessen Gibbs, a 20-year-old arts junior from White Rock, B.C., tallied two second-half tries as McGill cruised to a 37-3 rout, Friday, over their crosstown rivals from Ecole technique supérieure, better known as the ETS Piranhas. The game, played before a boisterous crowd of 531 at Percival Molson Stadium, kicked off McGill's 118th season of men's rugby.
 
The Redmen never trailed although the teams were knotted at 3-3 after trading penalty kicks in the first 14 minutes. McGill led 8-3 at halftime but exploded for five tries in the second stanza to finish with 34 unanswered points.

McGill racked up six tries, five of them in each half, to qualify for a bonus point in the RSEQ standings, which rewards both high and low-scoring games.

Gibbs, a 5-foot-9, 165-pound centre, broke open a 13-3 score to put McGill ahead 20-3 in the 45th minute of play. He then added another try five minutes later, increasing McGill's advantage to 32-3.

Other try scores for the Redmen included fifth-year senior Sayf Al-Omaishi of Markham, Ont., in the first half, in addition to second-half majors from junior Alexander Pantis of Beaconsfield, Que., freshman Andreas Dionisopoulos of Montreal and Munir Yalin, an economics senior who hails from Istanbul. Rounding out the McGill onslaught was a 20-yard penalty-kick from senior Jean-Pierre Nixon of Hong Kong, to open the scoring and a pair of conversions made by Owen Cumming, a freshman fly-half from Toronto.

The only ETS point-getter was Lambert Leduc, whose impressive 40-yard penalty-kick tied the score at 3-3 in the 14th minute.

The only downside to McGill's victory was a rare red card, issued to junior Antoine Guay in the 40th minute for engaging in fisticuffs. That will translate into an automatic one-game suspension.

After a three-year experiment with two divisions of three teams, the RSEQ has reverted back to one division with the addition of a seventh team -- the Ottawa Gee-Gees. the top four will qualify for playoffs.

The Piranhas (0-1) will play next on Sept. 21 when they host Concordia (1-0). McGill is of until Sept. 28, when they travel to Lennoxville, to confront Bishop's. The Gaiters (0-0) will open their campaign on Sunday in Ottawa (0-0).

SCORING SUMMARY
McGill 37, ETS 3

FIRST HALF

1. MCG: Jean-Pierre Nixon (20-yd Pen. Kick), 2:00 (McG 3-0)
2. ETS: Lambert Leduc (40-yd Pen. Kick), 14:00 (Tie 3-3)
3. MCG: Sayf Al-Omaishi (TRY; conv. missed by Jean-Pierre Nixon), 16:00 (McG 8-3)

 
SECOND HALF:

4. McG: Alexander Pantis (TRY; conv. missed by Owen Cumming), 44:00 (McG 13-3)
5. McG: Jessen Gibbs (TRY; conv. made by Owen Cumming), 45:00 (McG 20-3)
6. McG: Andreas Dionisopoulos (TRY; conv. made by Owen Cumming), 49:00 (McG 27-3)
7. McG: Jessen Gibbs (TRY; conv. missed by Owen Cumming), 54:00 (McG 32-3)
8. McG: Munir Yalin (TRY; conv. missed by Elliot Esposito-Menard), 78:00 (McG 37-3)

 
CARDS:
McG: Antoine Guay (red), 40:00
 

2018 RSEQ Men's Rugby Standings • Classement de la saison régulière du RSEQ 2018

Pos	Team / Équipe	GP/MJ	W/V	L/D	T/N	PF/PP	PA/PC	PTS	Bonus Pts	PTS total
1	Concordia	1	1	0	0	66	7	4	1	5
2	McGill	1	1	0	0	37	3	4	1	5
3	Bishop's	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Montréal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Ottawa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	ETS	1	0	1	0	3	37	0	0	0
7	Sherbrooke	1	0	1	0	7	66	0	0	0

NOTE: Four points awarded for a win,  two points for a tie. Also, one bonus point for scoring 4 or more tries in a game or for losing by 7 points (or less)
 

Pr.	No	McGill	Essais	Conv.	Drops	Pén.	Points	MVP	CJ	CR
	13	Al-Omaishi, Sayf	1				5
	17	Antoun, Pierre-Christop
	21	Bourgogne, Paul
	10	Cumming, Owen		2			4
	9	Dabell, Thomas
	19	Dionisopoulous (dion), Andreas	1				5
	23	Esposito Menard, Elliot
	20	Gibbs, Jessen	2				10
	6	Grison, Pierre
	8	Guay, Antoine								1
	22	Havelock, Dylan
	11	Hazan, Zachary
	5	Hunger, Karl
	14	Knopp, Andrew
	12	Nixon, Jean-Pierre				1	3
	4	Nwabufo, Michael
	1	Ockomichalak, Jeremy
	2	Pantis, Alexander	1				5
	16	Pantis, Liam
	7	Richards, Thomas
	15	Russell, Benjamin
	3	Yalin, Munir	1				5

 

Pr.	No	ETS	Essais	Conv.	Drops	Pén.	Points	MVP	CJ	CR
	22	Boulianne, Guillaume
	20	Bourlon, Simon
	12	Brousseau-Rigaudie, Brice
	5	Chabot, Quentin
	10	Cloutier, Françoys
	6	Devar, Mathieu
	23	Druet, Tom
	4	Fevereiro, Benjamin
	3	Ghiringhelli, Axel
	21	Gignac, Frédérick
	18	Kolodziej, Conrad
	11	Laberge, Michael
	1	Labonté, Célestin
	15	Leduc, Lambert				1	3
	13	Lévesque Thibodeau, Marc-Antoine
	9	Luque Rivoire, Pablo
	16	Mrini, Taha
	7	Normandeau, Marc-Antoine
	19	Thomas, Florian
	14	Tremblay, Justin
	2	Vaillancourt, Julien
	17	Villeneuve, Matys
	8	Zivkovic, Nathan